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The Poker Grapevine – Mercier’s Disappointing WSOP
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2013-08-01 06:54
Jason Mercier has made a pledge at the beginning of the year, setting some rather lofty goals for himself to accomplish on the live poker circuit. He seemed to do well for a while, well on track towards his proposed goals, but then the
2013 WSOP happened. After 61 events wrapped up and the Main Event played down to its final table, and after scores of “name” players made their deep runs and bracelet dashes, the
PokerStars pro was still unheard-of in any of the headlines. It turns out he had a pretty disappointing Series and basically failed to log any meaningful deep runs. He had set up some massive bracelet bets before the Series and then quietly melted into the background. Indeed, the world’s largest stage of live poker saw quite a few players make a name for themselves as well as quite a few already famous names confirm their statuses. Exactly what all these ups and downs meant for the GPI’s worldwide player rankings is unclear though: some players got massive boosts thanks to their WSOP accomplishments, while others – like Mercier – didn’t lose anything on account of their lack of such accomplishments. In fact, Mercier maintained his top position, despite the fact that he only made six rather lackluster cashes.
What seems to keep him at the top though are the solid results he has logged over the last couple of years.
Bryn Kenney and David Sands were two of the players who slid out of the GPI’s top 10. They were replaced by Joseph Cheong – who did indeed have a decent WSOP – and Andrew Lichtenberger.
While within the top 10 players only moved a few positions up or down, some of the players further down the ranks registered some pretty impressive gains: Steve Sung for instance climbed 2k places while Mike Matusow jumped close to 1k himself.
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